Now the networks are reporting that Sarah Palin, the current Governor of Alaska, has been selected as John McCain’s Vice Presidential candidate. Earlier this month, photoprez users speculated that Governor Palin might appear on the GOP ticket. Here’s the Governor giving a stump speech in Alaska:
As of Friday morning, the speculation around John McCain’s Vice Presidential candidate selection has only intensified. According to NBC News, Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and Sarah Palin have all been definitively ruled out. So, who’s left for McCain to chose?
According to Google AdSense keyword and image banner ads, Joe Lieberman has joined John McCain’s team. Last night, we posted a screenshot of an image banner ad and now we have a screenshot of a text banner ad.
So, before CNN, Fox News, or MSNBC has confirmed McCain’s selection, Google AdSense lets us know that “Senator Lieberman Joins McCain’s Team. Learn Why You Should Join!”. Another first for Internet politics- VP announcement by banner ad! Interestingly, the URL listed in the banner ad leads to dead ‘404′ page on McCain’s website. Is his campaign waiting to turn the JohnMcCain.com/lieberman link on?
The announcement of John McCain’s Vice Presidential running mate is a widely anticipated in the next few hours. Currently, political reporters have only speculation; on the Charlie Rose show live from Denver, Mark Halperin even admitted he “had no idea” who McCain would chose, but the bets were for Tim Pawlenty.
However, there have been a few sightings online of McCain campaign banners and search ads prominently featuring Connecticut Senator Joe Lieberman. First, at www.DaniWeb.com, blogger slfischer reveals that Google Adsense keywords may be exposing McCain’s intention to chose Joe Lieberman. Specifically, a search of the keywords “McCain Leiberman” produce a keyword ad promoting the two.
And, in the last few hours, we’ve received a few screenshots of a Google AdSense banner ads displayed on this site, photoprez.com. These banner ads show McCain and Lieberman together; here is the final frame of the ad:
McCain and Lieberman are pictured together, in a happy moment. The ad is paid by McCain 2008 and the call to action asks users to “JOIN OUR TEAM”. Note, the use of the possessive “OUR TEAM”… Are John McCain and Joe Lieberman a team?
Update: Other online readers are seeing this ad as well. “Awesome Blogger” Bob Cesca saw the same John/ Joe banner ad. Are these ads geo-targeted or running nationwide? Generally speaking, our users who reported seeing these ads are on the East Coast. More sightings must be documented to determine the scope of McCain’s Google media buy.
Early on the morning of August 23, 2008, Democratic Presidential nominee Barack Obama announced his selection of Joe Biden as his Vice Presidential running mate. If you have 2008 Presidential campaign photos of Joe Biden, or his wife Jill Biden, you can share them in our new Democratic Vice President Galleries:
People are already submitting photos of the new Vice Presidential couple, Joe and Jill Biden!